It Happened In Music: White Stripes vs. Air Force

Two years ago today, The White Stripes were taking on the US Air Force, complaining that it used one of the group’s songs without permission. The song at hand: “Fell In Love With A Girl,” which purportedly played during an ad for Super Bowl XLIV. In a statement on their website, the duo said they took “strong insult and objection, with the implication that we licensed one of our songs to encourage recruitment during a war that we do not support.”

Music has always played an important role in the sociocultural dialogue about politics. In that spirit, MOG compiled some of the best songs protesting war, or by artists who’ve had their own unique clashes with the armed forces, allowing you to take a deeper listen into the expressive, multi-dimensional statements from a variety of genres and eras.

Subscribers can listen to the mix directly. No MOG? Create your own version from the tracklist below.

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